Malaysia’s Muslim men are suffering sleepless nights and cannot pray properly
because their thoughts are distracted by a growing number of women who wear sexy
clothes in public, a prominent cleric said.

Nik Abdul
Aziz Nik Mat, the spiritual leader of the opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic
Party, said he wanted to speak about the “emotional abuse” that men face because
it is seldom discussed, the party reported on its Web site Wednesday.

“We
always [hear about] the abuse of children and wives in households, which is
easily perceived by the eye, but the emotional abuse of men cannot be seen,” Nik
Abdul Aziz said. “Our prayers become unfocused and our sleep is often
disturbed.”

You may
have heard of the name Nik Abdul Aziz before. This “spiritual leader” of the
Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party said women must not wear lipstick or perfume, even
if they’re wearing the hijab, because it may drive Muslim men into an
uncontrollable frenzy of
molestation and rape.

One of
the leaders of Malaysia’s Islamic opposition has upset women in the country by
suggesting that they should stop wearing lipstick and perfume to lower the risk
of being raped.

Nik Abdul
Aziz, the spiritual leader of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, claimed that even
women who wore Muslim head-scarves could arouse men if they also wore make-up
and perfume. The end result could be rape or molestation, he said.

Ivy
Josiah, a leader of Women’s Aid, said Nik Aziz’s comments suggested he believed
victims of rape were responsible for provoking it.

“Rape is
a chosen action by men who want to assert control over women,” she said.

I suppose
it would be too much too expect Muslim men to keep it in their damn pants and
not molest women, instead of trying to deflect the blame to the actual victim.

Blame the
victim - just like with terrorism.

One must
judge a religion by it’s fruits, and the fruits of Islam have been war,
bloodshed, barbarism, slavery, debauchery, deception, repression, brutalizing of
women and children and a legion of other uncivilized crude conduct and behavior.
Remember that a primary symbol of Islam is not a dove of peace, but rather the
sword.

By the way
… where are the exclamations of horror from Amnesty International or the
National Organization for Women?

And who can
forget Sydney-based Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali’s, the senior-most Islamic cleric in
Australia,
rantings:

In the
religious address on adultery to about 500 worshippers in Sydney last month [ed:
September 2006], Sheik Hilali said: “If you take out uncovered meat and
place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the
backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it … whose fault is it, the
cats or the uncovered meat?

“The
uncovered meat is the problem.”

The sheik
then said: “If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would
have occurred.”

He said
women were “weapons” used by “Satan” to control men.

“It is
said in the state of zina (adultery), the responsibility falls 90 per cent of
the time on the woman. Why? Because she possesses the weapon of enticement
(igraa).”

Islam’s,
the religion of Ishmael, background from Genesis 16 (NLT):

Now
Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not been able to bear children for him. But she had an
Egyptian servant named Hagar. So Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has prevented me
from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children
through her.” And Abram agreed with Sarai’s proposal. So Sarai, Abram’s wife,
took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave her to Abram as a wife. (This happened
ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.)

So Abram
had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. But when Hagar knew
she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress, Sarai, with contempt. Then
Sarai said to Abram, “This is all your fault! I put my servant into your arms,
but now that she’s pregnant she treats me with contempt. The Lord will show
who’s wrong—you or me!”

Abram
replied, “Look, she is your servant, so deal with her as you see fit.” Then
Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.

The angel
of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the wilderness, along the
road to Shur. The angel said to her, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where have you
come from, and where are you going?”

“I’m
running away from my mistress, Sarai,” she replied.

The angel
of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her authority.”
Then he added, “I will give you more descendants than you can count.”

And the
angel also said, “You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son. You are to
name him Ishmael (which means ‘God hears’), for the Lord has heard your cry of
distress. This son of yours will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild donkey! He
will raise his fist against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes, he
will live in open hostility against all his relatives.”

Thereafter, Hagar used another name to refer to the Lord, who had spoken to her.
She said, “You are the God who sees me.” She also said, “Have I truly seen the
One who sees me?” So that well was named Beer-lahai-roi (which means “well of
the Living One who sees me”). It can still be found between Kadesh and Bered.